We had an amazing time in Nashville for AspenCon 2025! There are many things to take away from the conference, but the power of Aspen Discovery as a tool to promote your library, extending the in-person #library experience into online environments, is one that cannot be emphasised enough!

“It takes hardly any effort to sign a petition. But if we are silent, we will lose so much. So take the opportunity. Make a change. Make your voice be heard. SAVE OUR LIBRARIES, SAVE OUR COMMUNITY“ chng.it/J5xG5zM7Nv

The London Libraries Conference is next Friday, 19 September! Catch up with Fiona (@fionaborthwick.bsky.social) and Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at the Open Fifth stand 👋

Catch my lightning talk '"Yes, and...": What the promotion of libraries and open source can learn from improv comedy' at AspenCon this October! ⚡

Here's your pathway to find Fiona, Helen & Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at the @cilip.bsky.social Supplier Showcase today in London! We're at stand 12, showing off the fantastic open source library software we implement and support, and services we provide to libraries throughout the UK and beyond.

Early start for my first @cilip.bsky.social event as a late-joiner to the library sector! Looking forward to today’s Supplier Showcase with the @openfifth.bsky.social team 😊

It’s World Book and Copyright Day (@unesco.org) today. How will you be marking the occasion? 📚 Lauren (@purton.bsky.social) at Open Fifth is feeding two birds with one scone via ‘Who owns this sentence? A history of copyrights and wrongs’ by Bellos and Montagu (2024)

Catch the Open Fifth team at #LILAC25 @lilacconf.bsky.social! Sam and Helen are having fun sharing what we do and our new name with academic library staff from the UK and beyond. Come and say hi, we're here until Wednesday 👋

Great insight from behind the curtain into the rise of ticket prices for live theatre performances. The lack of economies of scale and mechanisation to benefit from, and against huge risk! My 2025 resolution is to see more live shows (successful so far!)- Ep. 1/3 - freakonomics.com/podcast/how-...

30 pages in and with a whole new appreciation for Spice Girls 🇬🇧

#TheWhiteLotus has reached my algorithms, recommending this 1995 film feat. hard partying Mary (Parker Posey) and her pathway to librarianship! Very watchable for the quips and fashion alone.

New claim to fame: The book club I (intermittently) attend inspired a chapter in this book! Attended a great reading by David Wright of 'Breaking Bread: How baking shaped our world' this week. 🥖